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..and I forgot to remove a couple of crap flm pics
Some are pics taken at museums; cities; greenery; and a lot of familiar faces. You can tell which were taken by the older camera!
Anyway- have fun!
A bunch of photos by Moomoo
Anyway, I wish I had a fancy camera, though!:))
Not sure about the smelly red socks, mind.
;-)
What lens were they taken with? It renders colour very nicely indeed.
The first ones, a Canon Ixus 750D, but most were taken with an ancient regular Olympus Camedia C-2 point & shoot camera with only 2 megapixels & no zoom or anything.
I think generally they say Olympus, Nikon & Kodak have the best lenses, but Canon are pretty good too, and it changes.
Actually, I kind of messed up with it myself, but it's good fun, maybe you can get someone to show you the mechanics of it, Dan Dan told me about http://fotopic.net, which is quite easy to use, although I admit I found the instructions a bit opaque at times.
Go on!
Been interested in photography since I was about 15, but prohibitive costs and all meant I couldn't do much until adultdom with a bit of cash.
I've owned a few cameras:
Canon T80
Canon AE1
Sony U20
Canon 300V
Canon IXUS 40
...and now my pride and joy...
Canon 5D
Shoot for pleasure mostly, had the odd commission though. Maybe look into retiring early from my 9-5 grind into photography if I've made enough money.
Well done with yer photos that I've seen from links, especially those done on non-slr...and congrats dustboy on your new purchase, I'm sure it'll give you much pleasure.
If I can offer one tip to get you started, expose for highlights, as once gone, they are gone. Shadow detail can be usually recovered easily. And, don't be afraid to shoot RAW, unless shooting fast action like sports as you'll probably want more space in the memory buffer for more shots.
Thats the only thing I don't like about running, is that I can't take my camera with me, as it goes everywhere else with me :-)
About the cameras- that's quite a selection, I almost got a Canon AE1 a seriously long time ago, I also have old polaroid hanging about, one of those covered in brown leather, but I haven't used it for ages, wouldn't know what for.
Question: what is a decent scanner to use for photos? I have an Epson perfection 1660 photo, but I don't know whether it's a situation where one needs to upgrade very often.
Scanning prints or slide/negs?...or both?
and whats the intended output?
For scanning prints & negs, not slides, with a view to producing output both for pc storage and of print-outs (but not larger than A5 normally), particularly with something good for older b/w prints & negatives.
Its perfect for scanning prints without a doubt.
With a 1600dpi resolution, you could only expect to get about 3.3MP out of a 35mm neg. Its hard work scanning negs too, as the colours sometimes don't reverse as well as you'd like, sometimes throwing an orange cast. Easy to sort out in editing software though, all be it a pain. Your epson software may already come with a basic colour shift utility in the TWAIN application.
The finest grain films (Velvia50/100F, Provia100) are said to resolve the equivalent of about 7MP of detail. Higher ISO film and more so negatives have a larger grain structure and therefore resolve quite a bit less. As I said, I reckon 3.3MP should do you fine, and they'll blow up to A4 with a bit of a push (although ideally suited for smaller)
I haven't tried scanning any negatives since the time I first got it, and I'll have to look through the information again because I tend to use the automatic function, having used it a lot as a "photocopier"!. I have a few rolls of Agfa L IF b/w film, for example, I don't know how fine the grain is on those.
Anyway, now that I've been inspired, I spent a few hours this afternoon trawling through all sorts of websites looking at photos. Lurkers! Get those cameras busy!!
These are some of the ones I looked at:
www.photolinks.com A massive portal with absolutely everything on it.
www.rps.org The Royal Photographic Society- see what members have on there.
www.nationalgeographic.com/photography
www.geh.org/ George Eastman House (International Museum of photography)- (founder of Kodak)
I've just embarked on a course with the Open College of Arts (OCA), with the intention of getting a higher education degree. They are affiliated with the OU.
Requires quite a bit of time and effort, but it looks fairly worth it, plus something to work toward, goals n'all that.
www.oca-uk.com
Photos by Moomoo[url]
LM- that sounds very interesting! I had heard of them, but never really looked. I would do the creative digital art or poetry courses. Sadly, I'm preparing for a professional exam at the moment, so I can't do it yet
Photos by Moomoo
Also, here a link to the Open College of ARts mentioned above by LM:
www.oca-uk.com